Resources/Recursos

Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) is an overarching term used to describe a diverse subset of learners among the larger multilingual learner population. Knowing and understanding your multilingual learners identified as SLIFE is essential for ensuring their success in your teaching and learning context and their new communities at large. This Focus Bulletin explains how multilingual learners identified as SLIFE are showing up in our classrooms and what can educators do to support their unique needs.

Released October 2025

Educators of bi/multilingual learners engage in multiple roles within their school communities to advocate for student success. When educators engage in research practices, they gain a deeper understanding of their students’ cultural backgrounds and academic and emotional needs. This Focus Bulletin features some approaches to encourage practitioners to engage in research more intentionally, not only to inform their classroom practice but to contribute to the field and elevate their dual roles as practitioners and academics and this way honor and value their pracademic identity.

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Released October 2025

Discover how two teachers co-plan a lesson for multilingual learners with disabilities. This video shows how they adapt a museum scavenger hunt into a writing assignment and anticipate student need by planning strategies, such as using graphic organizers, sentence starters, and prompting students to make personal connections.

Released October 2025

Learn practical strategies to help multilingual learners with disabilities become more independent. This video shows how one teacher uses technology, explicit modeling, and visual aids to make lessons accessible, foster deeper learning, and connect to students' lives.

Released October 2025

Learn how one educator makes lessons more inclusive. This video explains how she used graphic organizers, technology, and visual aids to help a multilingual student with disabilities write and present a personal narrative, gaining confidence and independence.

Released October 2025

Collaborating across disciplines is key to meeting the needs of multilingual learners with disabilities. This video explains why it’s important for teachers and specialists to work together to ensure multilingual students with disabilities receive the right support to have their unique needs met.

Released October 2025

This video encourages a shift to more empathetic and responsive teaching and offers advice for educators on building an inclusive environment by honoring students’ identities and personal experiences.

Released October 2025

Who belongs on a student support team? This handout simplifies the roles of each required member, including parents. Read it to understand each person’s vital role in creating a successful Individual Education Program for a multilingual learner with disabilities.

For more context around this handout, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

Use this handout to explore student intersections of language, disability, home, community, and academics. Engage with the guiding questions collaboratively with colleagues and caregivers to inform instructional planning.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

Discover federal legislation and regulations that ensure every student, regardless of language or disability, gets a fair education. This flyer simplifies federal regulations, helping to understand schools’ responsibilities and advocate for students’ rights.

Released October 2025

Building strong family-school partnerships is key to student success. This handout shows how one teacher collaborates with a student’s mother, gathering insights about her child’s strengths and needs to build a supportive and inclusive classroom.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This handout provides ideas for applying the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in your classroom. It offers strategies to help all students, including multilingual learners with disabilities, participate in meaningful and challenging learning.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This tool provides practical, ready-to-use strategies from the WIDA and UDL frameworks to help you create accessible and engaging lessons for multilingual learners with disabilities.

For more context around this tool, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This report template for action research serves as a guide to share action research results. It may be adapted and modified according to the contextual needs of each pracademic. The template is an authorized adaptation of “Writing a Report of Action Research/Teacher Research,” by Kathy Short, 2018.

This template is meant to be used in tandem with The Pracademics Pathway to Support Multilingual Learners Focus Bulletin.

Released October 2025

resultados de investigación acción. Puede adaptarse y modificarse  según las necesidades del contexto de cada pracadémico. La plantilla es una adaptación autorizada de “Writing a Report of Action Research/Teacher Research”, de Kathy Short, 2018.

Esta plantilla es para utilizar en conjunto con el Boletin El camino de los pracademicos para apoyar a los estudiantes multilingües.

Released October 2025

Review this rubric before administering WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten to understand the expectations for each speaking task.

Released September 2025

Use this rubric to assign a score to writing responses on WIDA ACCESS for Kindergarten.

Released September 2025

As educators, leaders, and community partners dedicated to supporting Indigenous students, we share a responsibility to sustain and revitalize languages and cultures that have often been underrepresented in educational spaces. Indigenous language and culture reclamation goes beyond simply keeping languages and cultures alive; it is also about affirming identity, strengthening sovereignty, and nurturing resilience. This Focus Bulletin highlights strategies and examples of how community partnerships can sustain Indigenous languages and cultures. Drawing from the experiences of WIDA’s Indigenous partners — California Indian Education for All, the Lower Kuskokwim School District, and Sealaska Heritage Institute — it showcases practices that foster trust, center Indigenous knowledge, and advance educational sovereignty. Educators will find practical classroom considerations, insights for creating culturally sustaining learning environments, and guidance for cultivating respectful and reciprocal partnerships with Indigenous communities. These perspectives emphasize how community-rooted collaboration can support Indigenous students’ success as well as honor the vitality of their languages and cultures.

Released September 2025

A 6th grade English Language Arts (ELA) educator shares how she supports multilingual students during Socratic seminars by focusing on both content and language.

For additional context, including additional resources and videos, please visit the Standards in Action page.

Released September 2025

Discover how one educator helps multilingual students boost writing scores using Google Sites, WIDA assessment prompts, and rubrics to build skills and confidence.

For additional context, including additional resources and videos, please visit the Standards in Action page.

Released September 2025